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MEDLARS - SHE'S APPLES!

            In the rustic green garden of Catherine of Yarragon             Bobbled hundreds of frightful skulls of medlars woe-begone             Apples blackened with ague or rotting with plague on             To the wincing jaundiced quince, mug-ugly first cousin Yea, hundreds of death-masks dropping with aplomb             Like conkers, round brown faces, some bruised mauve to plum             Hollowed–out black eyes squinched neath nasal bar’s helm             Curving sepals summon knights from a distant Norman realm Mid a circuit of arthritic sticks, twiglets, thin limbs twisting r...
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CIRCUMVOLUTION

                                            a free for Rex Hunt Warning to the reader:   This piece attempts to capture the zany commentary style of ex-Australian Rules footballer, Rex Hunt.      Teams:  Navy Blues v. Kangaroos.             and Micky Martyn cops one high     but the man mountains             pinged for an offence on The Cranium     and big Mick goes ape droppings             as Mil snakes out a handpass to Spalding but The Golf Ball             makes a pigs breakfast of a junior giraffe kick to Diesel           ...
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BLEACHED SERGE

                                                                  CREDITS Sergio Leone                 maker of Clint Eastwood ; Jack High ; The Good , The Bad and Mr Average ; Mutiny Over The Bounty             Ennio Morricone          music score, sound effects             Carlo Bronsone            talent              ...
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BYE SHEEBS

                        scraggy white tufts and shocks of matted pleats                         shanks woolly wisped, plume lime-streaked                         baby-pink patches strawberry-scratched                         usually wound-stippled, unevenly patched                           gainst back-biting pug or treacherous tom                ...
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OLD LOVE Port Fairy

                                                   Like calcified roots of ancient trees on The Crags                         Old love is a confetti of Baci messages shredded                         A ring of turquoise opals with snag-toothed edges                         Your deframed photo in snippets frigidly fragged                ...
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ADOLESCENT DESKAPE

crustating in class      vassal or vessel    dripfed by vultures war vets in gowns       boxed by backrest & knobbled desklid          iron stanchions stirruping lustings of legs             often id pore over that oaken scrawled slab                in veins of stephens blue black & ruby red                   Jackson Pollock   rorshached   bridget riley                      so pricked by the press of worsted weave                     ...
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GRAND OLD LADY

                                         for Tess         I never wanted her inside          self-centred animals, cats         always scratching the furniture         infesting the pile with fleas         never did like the smell of cat in a house         besides   there was a bolt-hole in the garage wall         & a roll of old carpet      she’d be right         One summer evening it chucked hailstones thick as lychees       ...
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